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  1. Jules Lion

    1810 – 1866

    Posted in New Orleans.
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  2. Albert Sands Southworth

    1811 – 1894

    Posted in Boston.
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  3. Edward Anthony

    1819 – 1888

    Posted in NYC 1800s.
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  4. Victor Prevost

    1820 – 1881

    Posted in NYC 1800s.
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    John Jex Bardwell

    Posted in Chicago, Pullman.
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  6. John William Newland

    Posted in Calcutta, New Orleans, Sydney, Tahiti.
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  7. John Adams Whipple

    1822 – 1892

    Posted in Boston, Moon of Earth.
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  8. Charles DeForest Fredericks

    1823 – 1894

    Posted in Cuba, Dakota, NYC 1800s, Paris, Venezuela.
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  9. James Wallace Black

    1825 – 1896

    Posted in Boston.
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  10. Augustus Le Plongeon

    1825 – 1908

    Websites
    Dr. Le Plongeon's 3D Photography put together by John W. Hoopes, University of Kansas

    Posted in Maya, Peru, San Fransisco.
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    John Coates Browne

    1838 – 1918

    Posted in Alaska, Philadelphia, Yellowstone, Yosemite.
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  12. W.H. Jackson

    1843 – 1942

    Posted in Colorado, Columbian Exposition, México, Montana, Union Pacific, Utah, Ute, Wyoming, Yellowstone.
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    C.D. Arnold

    1844 – 1927

    Posted in Columbian Exposition.

  14. Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins

    1844 – 1916

    Posted in Biomechanics, Motion, Philadelphia.
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  15. William F. Boyd

    Born: 1848

    Posted in Seattle.

  16. Jacob Riis

    1849 – 1914

    Posted in Housing, NYC 1800s, Water.

  17. William Herman Rau

    1855 – 1920

    Websites
    Caribbean Photo Archive at Flickr

    Posted in 1880 - 81 Boer War #1, 1898 Spanish American War, Egypt, Lehigh Valley Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia.
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  18. Levin Corbin Handy

    1855 – 1932

    Posted in Washington DC.
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    Harry Shepherd

    Born: 1856

    Posted in Minnesota, St Paul.

  20. Nikola Tesla

    1856 – 1943

    Posted in Columbian Exposition.
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  21. William N. Jennings

    1860 – 1946

    Posted in Lightning, Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia.
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  22. Alfred Stieglitz

    1864 – 1946

    Posted in NYC 1800s.
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  23. George Grantham Bain

    1865 – 1944

    Posted in NYC 1910s.
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  24. Anders Beer Wilse

    1865 – 1949

    Posted in 1899 - 1902 Philippine–American War, Alaska, Fishing, Inuit, Klondike Gold Rush, Makah, Norway, Seattle, Shipping.
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    Daniel Freeman

    Born: 1868

    Posted in Washington DC.
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  26. George Lawrence

    1868 – 1938

    Posted in Aerial, Chicago, Earthquakes, San Fransisco.
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  27. Arnold Genthe

    1869 – 1942

    Posted in China > North America, Earthquakes, Fauxtography, Heads of State, San Fransisco.
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    J.C. Hemment

    Born: 1870

    Websites
    Harvard

    Posted in 1898 Spanish American War, Columbian Exposition.

  29. Jessie Tarbox Beals

    1870 – 1942

    Websites
    Collection at the New York Historical Society

    Posted in Boston, Heads of State, Housing, NYC 1910s.

  30. Philip Brigandi

    1873 – 1945

    Websites
    Cornell U Library

    Posted in Washington DC.
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  31. Asahel Curtis

    Born: 1874

    Posted in Fishing, Forestry + Lumber, Gold, Seattle, Washington.

  32. Lewis Hine

    1874 – 1940

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Child Labor, Drought, NYC 1930s, Pittsburgh, Steel.
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    Junius Wood

    Born: 1877

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, 1914 US occupation of Veracruz, 1917 Cuban Revolution, Chicago, Manchuria, Soviet Union / Russia.
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  34. Arthur P. Bedou

    1881 – 1966

    Posted in Jazz, New Orleans.

    Alvin Langdon Coburn

    1882 – 1966

    Posted in London, NYC 1910s.
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  36. Addison N Scurlock

    1883 – 1964

    Posted in Washington DC.
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  37. Clara E. Sipprell

    1885 – 1975

    Posted in Buffalo, NYC 1910s.
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    Karl Strauss

    1886 – 1981

    Posted in NYC 1910s.
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  39. James Van Der Zee

    1886 – 1983

    Posted in Harlem Renaissance, New York City.
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    Percy Loomis Sperr

    1890 – 1964

    Websites
    NY Public Library

    Posted in NYC 1920s, NYC 1930s, NYC 1940s.
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  41. Paul Strand

    1890 – 1976

    Posted in Ghana, Italy, México, Na h-Eileanan Siar (Outer Hebrides), NYC 1910s.
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  42. Roy Emerson Stryker

    1893 – 1975

    Websites
    Carnegie Library

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, 1929 - 40 Great Depression, Pittsburgh.
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  43. Frank Oscar Larson

    1896 – 1964

    Posted in NYC 1950s.
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  44. Berenice Abbot

    1898 – 1991

    Posted in Automotive, Literature, Maine, NYC 1930s, Painters + Sculptors.
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  45. Ben Shahn

    1898 – 1969

    Websites
    Harvard's searchable gallery

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, Arkansas, NYC 1930s, Ohio.
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  46. Ralph Steiner

    1899 – 1986

    Posted in NYC 1920s, Vermont.
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    Charles Peterson

    1900 – 1976

    Websites
    Swing Era New York: The Jazz Photographs of Charles Peterson at Amazon

    Posted in Jazz, NYC 1930s, NYC 1940s.
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  48. Lisette Model

    1901 – 1983

    Websites
    National Gallery of Canada

    Posted in France, NYC 1940s, NYC 1950s.
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  49. Lucien Aigner

    1901 – 1999

    Posted in Hungary, NYC 1930s, NYC 1940s, Paris.

  50. Walker Evans

    1903 – 1975

    Websites
    Artnet

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, African-American Civil Rights Movement, Alabama, Cuba, NYC 1930s.
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  51. Aaron Siskind

    1903 – 1991

    Posted in Chicago, NYC 1930s.
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  52. Clarence John Laughlin

    1905 – 1985

    Posted in New Orleans.

    John Gutmann

    1905 – 1998

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, San Fransisco.
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    Ralston Crawford

    1906 – 1978

    Posted in Bikini Atoll, Jazz, Marshall Islands, New Orleans.

  55. Andreas Feininger

    1906 – 1999

    Posted in NYC 1940s, NYC 1950s.
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  56. Willard Van Dyke

    1906 – 1986

    Posted in NYC 1930s.
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  57. Charles "Teenie" Harris

    1908 – 1998

    Posted in Negro League, Pittsburgh.

    Seymour Snaer

    1909 – 1995

    Websites
    HILARIOUS story about Snaer told by Lewis Lapham at Lapham's Quarterly

    Posted in San Fransisco.

  59. Milton Rogovin

    1909 – 2011

    Posted in Appalachia, Buffalo, Chile, Iroquois, México, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Storefront Churches.
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    Leon Levinstein

    1910 – 1998

    Posted in NYC 1950s, NYC 1960s, NYC 1970s, NYC 1980s.
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  61. Lou Bernstein

    1911 – 2005

    Posted in NYC 1930s, NYC 1940s.
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    Brett Weston

    1911 – 1993

    Posted in Japan, NYC 1950s, San Fransisco.
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  63. Gordon Parks

    1912 – 2006

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, NYC 1960s.
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    Oliver E. Pfeiffer

    1912 – 1996

    Posted in Chicago, Pacific Theater.
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  65. Eve Arnold

    1912 – 2012

    Posted in Afghanistan, African-American Civil Rights Movement, China, England, Hollywood, Migrant Labor, NYC 1940s, South Africa, Soviet Union / Russia.
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  66. Harry Callahan

    1912 – 1999

    Posted in Chicago, NYC 1970s.
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  67. Sid Grossman

    1913 – 1955

    Posted in Labor Union, NYC 1930s, NYC 1940s.
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  68. Helen Levitt

    1913 – 2009

    Posted in Children, NYC 1930s, NYC 1940s, NYC 1950s, NYC 1960s.

    John Arabinko

    Born: 1914

    Posted in Chicago.

  70. Sol Libsohn

    1914 – 2001

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, Circus + Fairs, Guatemala, NYC 1930s, Oil, Trucking.
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  71. Jack Delano

    1914 – 1997

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, Chicago, Puerto Rico, Rail.
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    Yoichi R. Okamoto

    1915 – 1985

    Posted in Munich, Official White House Photographer, Washington DC.
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  73. Robert Scurlock

    1917 – 1994

    Posted in Tuskegee Airmen, Washington DC.
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  74. Wayne Miller

    Born: 1918

    Posted in Atomic Bombings, Chicago, Hiroshima, Pacific Theater.
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  75. Homer Page

    1918 – 1985

    Posted in NYC 1940s, Trachoma, Yaws.

  76. W. Eugene Smith

    1918 – 1978

    Websites
    Memorial Fund

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Heads of State, Jazz, Medicine, Minamata, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Pittsburgh, Spain.
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  77. Roy DeCarava

    1919 – 2009

    Posted in Jazz, NYC 1950s.
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  78. Harold Corsini

    1919 – 2008

    Posted in Pittsburgh, Steel.
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    Stan Stearns

    Posted in Washington DC.
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  80. Esther Bubley

    1921 – 1998

    Posted in CB&Q Railroad, Medicine, Pittsburgh, WWII - Homefront (U.S.).
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    Benjamin Chinn

    1921 – 2009

    Websites
    LA Times obituary + gallery

    Posted in China > North America, San Fransisco, Tarahumara.
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  82. Yasuhiro Ishimoto

    Born: 1921

    Posted in Chicago, WWII Japanese American internment.
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  83. Ernest Withers

    1922 – 2007

    Posted in African-American Civil Rights Movement, Memphis, Negro League.
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  84. Diane Arbus

    1923 – 1971

    Posted in NYC 1960s.

  85. Fred J. Maroon

    1924 – 2001

    Posted in Egypt, Heads of State, NYC 1950s, Washington DC.
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  86. Robert Frank

    Born: 1924

    Posted in Caribbean, NYC 1960s, Peru.

  87. Joe Alper

    Born: 1925

    Posted in Folk, Jazz, NYC 1960s.

  88. Vivian Maier

    1926 – 2009

    Websites
    Article in Chicago Magazine

    Posted in Chicago.

  89. Bob Willoughby

    1927 – 2009

    Posted in Hollywood, Ireland, Jazz, Los Angeles.

  90. Richard Nickel

    1928 – 1972

    Websites
    Richard Nickel Committee archive at the Art Institute of Chicago's Ryerson & Burnham Libraries

    Posted in Architecture, Chicago.

    Charles Brittin

    Born: 1928

    Posted in Art, Los Angeles.
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  92. Bill Cunningham

    Born: 1928

    Posted in New York City.

  93. Garry Winograd

    1928 – 1984

    Posted in NYC 1960s, NYC 1970s.

  94. Stanley Kubrick

    1928 – 1999

    Websites
    Kubrick's 1949 photos of Chicago at Retronaut

    Posted in Chicago.

  95. Leonard Freed

    1929 – 2006

    Posted in 1973 Yom Kippur War, African-American Civil Rights Movement, NYC 1970s.
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  96. Bob Adelman

    Born: 1930

    Posted in African-American Civil Rights Movement, Art, Jazz, NYC 1960s.

  97. Harold Feinstein

    Born: 1931

    Posted in NYC 1940s.

  98. William Gedney

    1932 – 1989

    Websites
    Duke University

    Posted in India, Kansas, Kentucky, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Music, NYC 1950s, NYC 1960s, NYC 1970s, San Fransisco.

  99. Dennis Brack

    Born: 1932

    Posted in African-American Civil Rights Movement, Washington DC.
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  100. Max Kozloff

    Born: 1933

    Posted in NYC 1970s.
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